05. Art Collectors and Collecting

Abstract

The Mortimer Brandt Gallery Scrapbooks document Mortimer Brandt's work as an art dealer who operated the Mortimer Brandt Gallery in New York City from the early 1930s to the 1960s. Brandt specialized in Old Master paintings and drawings but exhibited modern artists in the years following World War II. The collection contains materials ranging from the years 1937 to 1980, with a majority of records dating from 1939 to 1944.

Abstract Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist, began forming his art collection in 1881, and continued to acquire works of art until his death in 1919. He bequeathed his New York City residence, furnishings, and art collection to be established as a public art gallery called The Frick Collection, which opened to the public in December 1935. This collection contains correspondence, invoices and financial records, catalogs, inventories, registers, notes, narrative...

Abstract

The American Art Association, a New York art gallery and auction house, was founded in 1883 by James F. Sutton, R. Austin Robertson, and Thomas E. Kirby. The records date from 1877-1924, but the bulk of the material documents a selection of auction sales run by the gallery from 1910 through 1923. The collection contains correspondence, approximately 1,000 photographs, handwritten and typed notes, fragments of a typed manuscript on the American Art Association, and printed material.